Electronics Forum | Sun Mar 12 22:02:40 EST 2006 | Steveo
Personally I think Grid lok is inferior to the new Vacunest system, especially in screen printing. Vacunest is basically a bean bag that conforms to the shape of the PCB and then holds this shape indefinatley under vacuum, until the vacuum is releas
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 05 16:26:53 EDT 2006 | Bill
Thinking about this auto-mode on Grid-Lok..... Ok, the board is warped, lets say positively, the pins conform to the warped board... what about the effect on top side and squeegee pressure? It will be much higher and could damage stencils, right? Pos
Electronics Forum | Tue Sep 13 19:06:49 EDT 2016 | dontfeedphils
Well I've tried to get in touch with Ovation for weeks now without luck, so maybe someone here will have the answers I'm looking for. One of our Grid-Lok Gold modules is leaking air from the sides (it pushes the pins up fine, but when air is applied
Electronics Forum | Fri Aug 03 12:30:34 EDT 2001 | hinerman
This technology currently works with stencil printers, placement machines, and dispensing equipment with equal success. Not all are commercially available yet. The placement machines with a moving table and weight resrtrictions are more of a chal
Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 14 18:28:05 EST 2004 | dorklover664
From talking to the DEK rep. the Red-E-Sets seam to be the way to go if you are watching cost. We have a 30-day �trial� of them right now so I will post what we learn. I keep trying to talk my manager in to the Grid-Loks but I don't know if that�s go
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 18 09:52:36 EDT 2005 | pjc
FormFlex and the GridLok system will not work on a semi-automatic printer. They were designed for fully automatic machines. The print table is very shallow on the DEK 248, SMTechs and MPM SPM, UP100 and MicroFlex. DEK should have magnetic base suppor
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 28 13:43:10 EST 2006 | Brick
JNJ made a nice tooling plate for MPM Hi-E series. Its intent was to replace MPM's "Universal Nest" with an alpha-numeric grid type system. I looked on their website, and they don't make it anymore. Worked great as long as you documented your setu
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 02 21:23:30 EST 2006 | Wave Master Larry
Well see you wrong. I've done this kind of thing for 12 years and I cna tell you that suporting boards with anything else will cause more problems. wave is an art tha needs to be respected even by engineers at AI. Once you get the process down the
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 13 19:16:33 EST 2006 | dynamic
Hi Steveo, What sort of products are you using the vacunest on? ie: PCB thickness, panel size, complexity etc... What brands and types of screen printers are you using? - Did you have to modify your printers? Do you also use it in your placement
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 29 14:21:24 EDT 2006 | billyd
Dude: I have used the Grid-lok system before, in DEK 265 and DEK Infinity printers (clamps) and they worked quite well. But, we did have the side clamps. I'm not sure how that translates to an MPM. They were the best we could find as far as the
